Interior and exterior painting in Toronto
We paint homes and condo units across Toronto, a city where a majority of the housing stock predates 1980: 29.3 percent of dwellings were built in 1960 or earlier and another 28.8 percent between 1961 and 1980. The former City of Toronto, Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough, York, and East York were amalgamated in 1998, and each still carries its own building era.
Lead paint, correctly framed for Ontario
Forget the "1978" date most search results quote; it belongs to an American ban with no force here. Canada's current limit on lead in coatings sold today is 90 mg/kg, which governs new paint, not what is already layered under an older Toronto home's finish coats. Ontario instead classifies the actual work by expected dust exposure: a power tool fitted with effective HEPA dust collection keeps sanding or scraping in the lowest category, and the same tool run without it jumps two categories higher. On any Toronto home from the older bands, we test suspect coatings first and work to the low-exposure method by default.
Stipple ceilings and older joint compound
A friable stipple ceiling in an older Toronto home may be asbestos-containing, and disturbing more than a square metre of it sits in a higher hazard category under Ontario's rules, with the duty to test resting on the homeowner before tenders are even requested. We do not sell whole-ceiling removal as a routine painting extra in this city.
Condo interiors and the rest of the job
Close to half of all Toronto dwellings sit in a building of five storeys or more, the highest share of any city we serve, so condo interiors are a large part of what we paint here, worked around a building's own booking and protection rules. Ceiling height still adds real cost in a house: a 9 ft room adds 10 to 15 percent over standard, more again for a vaulted space. Pair a repaint with our kitchen renovation work in Toronto or basement renovation in Toronto, and see everything else we build across our Toronto service area.
Testing before anything gets sanded is the default here because a majority of the stock is older than 1980, a share neither lakeshore neighbour comes near: interior painting in Mississauga sits just above seven percent pre-1960, and painting contractors in Oakville at about one home in twelve.